Twineedle (move)

Twineedle ダブルニードル Double Needle

Battles Type  Bug Category  Physical PP  20 (max. 32) Power  25 Accuracy  100% Priority  0 Does not make contact Affected by Protect Not affected by Magic Coat Not affected by Snatch Not affected by King's Rock

Range Opponent Opponent Opponent Self Ally Ally Unknown

Availability Introduced  [[Generation {{{gen}}}]] Not a TM, TR, HM, or Move Tutor move.

Contests Condition  Cool Appeal  2 ♥♥ Jam  3 ♥♥♥ ???

Super Contests Condition  Cool Appeal  2 ♥♥

Contest Spectaculars Condition  Cool Appeal  0   Jamming  0

On Smogon's Movedex: Generation IX

Twineedle is a Bug-type move introduced in Generation I that deals very little damage.

Effect

Generation I

Twineedle does damage, and has a 19.9% chance of poisoning the opponent. Twineedle hits twice per use. Though technically only the first hit can critical hit, each hit per use will do the same amount of damage.

Twineedle will end immediately if it breaks a substitute.

Twineedle can't poison an opponent that has a substitute, already has a major status ailment, or is a poison type. Bide will only acknowledge one hit of a Twineedle attack.

Learnset

Generation I

By leveling up

• Beedrill at Lv.20

Generation II

By leveling up

• Beedrill at Lv.20

Generation III

By leveling up

• Beedrill at Lv.20

Generation IV

By leveling up

• Beedrill at Lv.16

Trivia

• Twineedle is the only Bug move so far that can poison. On a related note, it is that only non-Poison type move to poison a foe.
• Although normally Steel foes cannot be poisoned, Twineedle is not a Poison move, thus still can damage Steel foes and possibly poison them

In other languages

Polish: Podwójne Żądło Spanish: Doble Ataque.